The only issue with it now is the leaderboard which only affects ultra-competitive people, the game itself is as good as AoC
just blind opinions with no fact behind them....
Having no in-game ratings makes the matchmaking a lottery (->nightmare), the laddersystem is a joke and you can find dozens of reports from voobly players that don't like the scroll speed + the lag issues. Now your facts please?
Facts are that I have no issues with the game whatsoever; scroll speed, lag issues(and if you read the next patch notes youll see a fix for the scroll speed instead of embarassing yourself without your facts) and although the ratings are crap theres still a win/loss ratio on http://www.aoe2stats.com which doesnt lie which hosts use to allow or deny players so if you care about fair games its fine.
from first hand experience which most of the people who complain and try to make the game fail dont have(including you) I can say that this game is fantastic maybe not for competitive pros (as I mentioned) but for anyone who doesnt worship the god of "rating"